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New Professors and Associate Professors

Following the 2024 academic promotions round, AUT is pleased to announce that, we will have six new Professors and 23 new Associate Professors.

Climate change impacts on our health

Health and wellbeing were featured topics at COP29 this year and must be a top priority according to AUT Professor, Erica Hinckson.

AUT designed Woo-Laces now on sale

Forget boring shoelaces, meet the Woo-lace. Created by AUT student Jacob Smith, the award-winning Woo-lace makes an ideal stocking filler.

Online gaming leading to gambling harm

New research from AUT’s Pacific Islands Families shows regular online gaming as a teenager is a significant predictor of gambling harm at aged 22.

New youth crime laws unlikely to work

Science shows the brain is being rewired during adolescence, up to age 25. But the government’s proposed law reforms overlook these biological influences.

Record number of midwifery graduates

AUT is celebrating the graduation of the largest-ever cohort of midwifery students.

Evolving industry prompts degree revamp

Refreshed Master of Communication Studies degree provides fresh challenges to meet the needs of a diverse, rapidly changing industry.

AUT helps warriors draw go with a bang

Chemistry Professor Allan Blackman stars in a fun new NZ Warriors social media campaign highlighting the NRL’s 2025 draw.

Solomon Islands Pidgin Language Week '24

An AUT Admissions Assessor, Jillian Sabetian, shares her language learning journey as part of Aotearoa’s inaugural Solomon Aelan Pijin Langguis Wik.

1 in 7 Kiwis experience economic harm

Like other forms of family violence, economic harm affects victims’ physical and mental health, and increases housing instability and financial insecurity.